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  • Third-quarter results, while modestly better than expec tations, thanks to lower impairment charges, will hardly have reassured investors that Barclays has a way out of its strategic bind.

    Barclays Suffers the Winner Simon Nixon 2010

  • Some schools on our list have international repu-tations.

    AMERICA'S 25 HOT SCHOOLS 2007

  • We both have been blessed beyond all expec tations.

    Reposition Yourself T.D. Jakes 2007

  • The disparity largely accounts for the relative frequency of ci - tations drawn from the experiences of the various units.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • Both the blade and I had repu - tations few were ready to challenge.

    The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003

  • There lies the trouble with having to live up to another's expectations, when those expec - tations are founded on questionable memories.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • There has been a great deal of concern about child abuse, and the Ministry has been accused of failing to respond to represen - tations made by the Child Abuse Action Group.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • She was a Rover girl, free of the constraints of personal history, of the ties and obli - gations of family, and of the need to live up to anyone's expec - tations but her own.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • Nature; besides, as Descartes pointed out in his Medi - tations (i, iv, vi), it was only by a constant act of will that one could hold the mathematico-physical hypoth - esis itself in face of the contrary suasions of one's five senses.

    FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

  • Persian state, with its system of satrapies, made it easier for the king to rely on private and individual consul - tations, though the result often was rebellion.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

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